This Graph is a bi-gram network graph based on words that appear in combination at least 15 times in the corpus. It was built using the “igraph” package in R.
In this graph one can see the words that has the strongest relationship is covid and 19. Looking at the words clustered around the 19 (from covid 19) one can see the words related to the virus’s impact in the center. One can also see intervention methods in the form of the relief fund clustered close to center of the Covid 19 cluster. There are two clusters connecting directly to the Covid 19 cluster namely the lockdown and sabcnews clusters. The sabcnews cluster is the only one that bridges the gap between Covid 19 and the presidency. The lockdown cluster on the other hand is the bridge between ministers when looking at the word network